They Need To Understand The Harm : How Indian Mascots Affect Native American Students
Quannah Morrison (l) and his father Jamie Morrison (r) stand outside their home in Milton, Mass. on June 2, 2021. Quannah is 17 and plays basketball at Milton High School and club hockey.
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Winchester High School s mascot when Jamie Morrison went there was the Sachems and still was until last year. The associate director of the Urban Scholars Program at UMass Boston, who is Eastern Cherokee, has been trying to get rid of Native American mascots for a long time.
âI witnessed a lot of things at Winchester, he said. A lot of close friends who were white that grew up and they would dress up. Or their siblings would dress upâ as Indians.
Philip Marcelo May 26, 2021 - 10:21 PM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) â When Samantha Maltais steps onto Harvardâs campus this fall, sheâll become the first member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe to attend its prestigious law school. Itâs a âfull-circle momentâ for the university and the Marthaâs Vineyard tribe, she says.
More than 350 years ago, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, an Aquinnah Wampanoag man, became the first Native American to graduate from the Cambridge, Massachusetts, university â the product of its 1650 charter calling for the education of âEnglish and Indian youth of this country.â Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck1650 charter
âComing from a tribal community in its backyard, Iâm hyper aware of Harvardâs impact,â said Maltais, the 24-year-old daughter of her tribeâs chairwoman. âItâs a symbol of New Englandâs colonial past, this tool of assimilation that pushed Native Ameri
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) When Samantha Maltais steps onto Harvard’s campus this fall, she’ll become the first member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe to attend its prestigious law school. It’s a “full-circle moment” for the university and the Martha’s Vineyard tribe, she says. More than 350 years ago, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, an Aquinnah Wampanoag man, became […]
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CAMBRIDGE When Samantha Maltais steps onto Harvard’s campus this fall, she’ll become the first member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe to attend its prestigious law school. It’s a “full-circle moment” for the university and the Martha’s Vineyard tribe, she says.
More than 350 years ago, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, an Aquinnah Wampanoag man, became the first Native American to graduate from the Cambridge, Massachusetts, university the product of its 1650 charter calling for the education of “English and Indian youth of this country.”
“Coming from a tribal community in its backyard, I’m hyper aware of Harvard’s impact,” said Maltais, the 24-year-old daughter of her tribe’s chairwoman. “It’s a symbol of New England’s colonial past, this tool of assimilation that pushed Native Americans into the background in their own homelands.”